Thursday, August 25th, 2022

Morning Announcements

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Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today's headlines: Val Demings won the democratic senate primary in Florida, while Matt Gaetz, who despite being investigated for sex trafficking, was victorious in his primary to run again for his Republican House seat. Pat Ryan has won a special congressional election for a seat in the Hudson Valley, while Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman have won in the Upper East/West side district and the Brooklyn district. Yesterday President Biden announced that the federal government will cancel 10 thousand dollars in federal student debt for individuals who are making 125 thousand dollars or less in income. The Jan. 6 panel investigators have traveled to Copenhagen to view footage of Roger Stone's pardening, and the IRS has announced that they’re launching a full security review of their facilities nationwide. Finally, Dinosaur tracks from 113 million years ago were uncovered due to severe drought conditions at Dinosaur Valley State Park. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: PK Journal: Pat Ryan defeats Marc Molinaro in 19th Congressional special election NY Times: Five Takeaways From Tuesday's Election AP News: Student loan forgiveness could help more than 40 million Politico: Jan. 6 panel investigators traveled to Copenhagen to view Stone footage Washington Post: IRS launches safety review after right-wing threats CNN: Dinosaur tracks from 113 million years ago uncovered due to severe drought conditions at Dinosaur Valley State Park Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Thursday, August 25th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:06.3	by Betches Media.
0:07.3	I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five minute breakdown
0:11.3	on the headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality
0:15.6	show there is.
0:16.7	Our government.
0:17.7	Today's episode is brought to you by Best Fiends.
0:20.3	Best Fiends is a free-to-download mobile puzzle game with thousands of exciting levels
0:24.0	for new adventures and challenges every time you play.
0:31.0	First up today, we have some results from two states' primary elections in Florida
0:35.0	and New York.
0:36.0	Starting in Florida, Val Demings won the Democratic Senate primary and will be challenging Marco
0:40.4	Rubio for his seat.
0:42.0	Then we have prototypical Florida man MacGates, who, despite being under investigation for
0:46.5	sex trafficking, was victorious in his primary to run again for his house seat, and will
0:51.3	face off against Democratic challenger Rebecca Jones.
0:54.3	She's a COVID scientist who is fired by Rhonda Santas for exposing the undercounting of COVID
0:58.4	deaths in Florida.
1:00.3	And speaking of DeSantis, we now know that he will be challenged for the governorship
1:03.6	by Charlie Christ, who is formerly a Republican governor of Florida, but last night ran
1:08.1	on the Democratic ticket and won.
1:10.4	He now represents the last chance to stop DeSantis from turning Disney World into Florida's
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